12 Facts About Bosch Fawstin

Bosch Fawstin won a controversial Muhammad cartoon contest in 2015 that saw the Curtis Culwell Center attack take place.

Bosch Fawstin was born and raised in the Bronx, New York City by Albanian Muslim parents.

Bosch Fawstin has cited the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy as a strong influence of his views in "defense of free speech".

Bosch Fawstin began taking night classes at the School of Visual Arts when he was 25 in order to pursue a career of making comic books.

The story takes place in one night in an Italian restaurant, Bosch Fawstin having a background working in the restaurant trade himself.

Bosch Fawstin first began drawing Muhammad after the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2006, then after Molly Norris was forced into hiding for announcing the "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" in 2010, again after the offices of Charlie Hebdo were firebombed in 2011, and following the Charlie Hebdo massacre in 2015, which led to the 2015 Muhammad cartoon contest.

Bosch Fawstin stated that he had received death threats for his cartoons before then, but denied reports in The Wall Street Journal that he went into hiding following the attack.

Bosch Fawstin published the semi-biographical The Infidel, featuring Pigman, a three-part comic book that is part of a graphic novel.

Bosch Fawstin has been identified as a blogger of the counter-jihad movement, and as a frequent contributor to FrontPage Magazine.

Bosch Fawstin was listed as an anti-Muslim "active hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2016 and 2017.

Bosch Fawstin published the two-volume Peaceful Death Threats in 2019, which compiled some of the thousands of death threats he has received from Muslims.

Bosch Fawstin stated to have drawn Muhammad over three hundred times by 2020.